It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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We are always the same age inside.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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